Their undercutting strategy caused a lot of those layoffs. Are you blind to a clear case of opportunism? And setting standards? Altruistic motives have never been part of that game. China wants more say at ICANN, and many with good reason consider that suspect.

I had a pleasure of meeting people at Huawei HQ in Shenzhen. I must say that they do go out of their way to do their marketing job fine.

But none of the marketing measures (including one hour lecture I heard from Huawei's counsel debunking every myth about Huawei) amounts to anything in terms of gaining transparency it badly needs, because a) as Bert mentioned earlier, there is some clarity from the Chiense government; b) Huawei needs to become a public company.

It is in the best interest of Huawei, Cisco, and others to try to stay clear of any attempt of their respective governments to use their technology for their dirty work.

So that's the point, Pablo. It is indeed in the best interest of these companies to not do their government's bidding.

However, in the US, this is conceivably possible. Because we have laws about unreasonable search and seizure, and it's even enshrined in the 4th Amendment to our consitution. On the other hand, in China, there is no similar law. Therefore, no matter how many mea culpas we profess, for having done the same things that Huawei was accused of, it is somewhat possible that our companies will wise up in the future, but the same cannot be said for companies based in countries that have no 4th Amendment, or similar.

The accent on Huawei is misplaced. They are not in control of this problem. Whatever their PR says on the subject is less than credible, unless and until their government makes a statement on the subject.

"Microsoft, Steam, Apple and many others are essentially working toward an end that will allow them, if the so desire, to completely dictate how and when we can use the stuff we give them money for."

@Duane, I do miss my simple pencil too, and I still write my blogs on paper, with a fountain pen.

I believe people need to be back in control, of governments and privacy! Europe is taking some steps in that direction, but not enough.

What we need is clear rules of what corporations can collect, store and share, and put users back in control. And governments need to focus their cybersecurity efforts in stopping others from hacking our networks, not trying to do it themselves.

"Corporations are not more trustable, most likely, but at least there is some recourse"

@Bert, that is actually the point. Huawei, and other companies, can not afford to be acused of spying on corporations and people. US technology companies, especially in the cloud computing business, are losing billions in Europe because of the NSA spying scandal.

It is in the best interest of Huawei, Cisco, and others to try to stay clear of any attempt of their respective governments to use their technology for their dirty work.

@rick, I agree that Huawei has improved a lot its technical capabilities, and have good engineers working for them.

The company actually said last year that was not focusing on the US market anymore, but lnow it ooks like they want to comeback. I spoke with some US telecom executives a few weeks ago during the MWC, and many were talking to Huawei about possible deals.

Many ISPs and telecoms in the US want Huawei back in the game to improve competition but no one wants to be the first to admit using their systems. That is the issue Huawei needs to fix.

I lived in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen massacre so have no love lost on the China government. However Ed Snowden showed our hands are not exactly clean either.

In its time Huawei was accused of stealing Cisco code, so I suppose it has some comeuppance, too.

But the company has worked hard gaining technical chops and employing all sorts of Motorola, Ericsson and other engineers in thre US and Europe when those Western companeis were laying off people. It has also been stepping up into leadewrship roles in all sorts of standards groups, too. (Can't say that for secretive giants like Apple.)

What Huawei needs now is a new marketing program, maybe a name/logo change and some high profile public service projects. The engineers are doing just fine, methinks.

Due to the past experience of Chinese government all the companies based out of China have to pay the price. This is something that is mindset driven and would not go away so easily. Other thing Huwaei is always known for making their engineeers work round the clock. Another negative pubilicity.